Feb 26
The Food and Drug Administration has this week embarked on discussions on a topic sure to prove controversial: the idea of creating embryos from the DNA of three people.
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Feb 26
Long live Flappy Bird, the game we loved to hate
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Feb 25
In order to run a blood test, one would need to have sufficient amount of fresh blood. The thing is, what happens when one is unable to draw enough blood, or the circumstances do not permit it? A certain Elizabeth Holmes is curious to see a future where old-fashioned phlebotomy is reinvented so that a new dawn of comprehensive superfast diagnosis and preventive medicine can be ushered in. Having founded a company known as Theranos, she has worked on a radical blood-testing service that requires just a pinprick and a drop of blood. That single drop of blood is enough to run hundreds of tests, which range from standard cholesterol checks to sophisticated genetic analyses.
Single Drop Of Blood Enough For 30 Lab Tests original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Feb 25
Diana Deutsch is a professor of psychology at the University of San Diego, and a master at manipulating people’s ears. While researching quirks in the way humans hear things, she has invented many auditory illusions. Here are some of the weirdest, and why they work.
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Feb 25
No, Vaccines Don't Cause Autism
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In 1998, there was a groundbreaking study telling parents that their children were at risk of getting autism from vaccines. Parents everywhere collectively gasped. After all, they had been told for years vaccines were the best way to prevent any number of unwanted diseases. Now they find out the very treatment they thought was making their children better could potentially result in devastating consequences, at least in the case of low-functioning Autism.
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Feb 25
The Science of Sriracha
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Feb 24
I am quite sure that those of us who drive a whole lot, or have racked up many years of experience, would know of this dangerous stunt on the freeway – tailgating. The person being tailgated might undergo intense mental pressure to get out of the way, while the person doing the tailgating is endangering the lives of everyone on the road. Well, perhaps a new DIY robot known as LuxBlaster might put an end to the menace known as tailgating, although it would probably end up as an illegal contraption to install on your ride.
LuxBlaster Might Signal The End Of Tailgaters original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Feb 24
There is nothing quite like a nice and cold Ice cream cone on a particularly hot day, where it can be seen to be some sort of comfort food by some. How about turning it into something more? Designers Carla Diana and Emilie Baltz have come up with what they call Lickestra, as a musical performance can be made possible when you have four folks alongside a quart of vanilla ice cream and several high-tech cones come together. Of course, having a sense of musical ability would go a long way in helping the Lickestra deliver a stunning performance.
Lickestra Lets You Make Music As You Lick Your Ice Cream original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Feb 24
The age of space exploration in many ways is just beginning. Although many intrepid souls have broken through the earth’s atmosphere during the course of the last half-century, our thirst for what lies beyond its shadowy realm propels us to explore further and dig even deeper. Israel has taken one benevolent step in this direction aided by France; together they may change the true nature and scope of space exploration.
Feb 24
Using Light To Detect Pain
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Pain – it is one aspect of life that some of us would prefer not to live with, and yet it is essential in helping us know that something is wrong with our bodies when we feel a certain amount of pain somewhere. I guess some pain is all right, but how about the excruciating one that would actually make folks pass out? A team from Stanford University has come up with a new technique which enables them to modulate the amount of pain. This particular technique would rely on optogenetics, which is a method that will introduce genes which code for light sensitive proteins into animals.
Using Light To Detect Pain original content from Ubergizmo. 
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